Redevelopment Quotes

You need both components - renters and owners - for redevelopment to work. - Mayor Sebastian Giuliano

You have your local city government and your community redevelopment agencies who will tell you that they want to take private property because they want to do away with blight, they want to upgrade the neighborhood... I don't buy that. - Maxine Waters

While clearly it was a good business move with a very visible headquarters in the city's center, one of his goals was to help redevelopment in downtown Lakeland. He clearly saw it (the potential) before others did. - Jim Edwards

When we talk about the entire area being blighted we don't mean every parcel within that area. When you have a redevelopment area in which you set it up way back when you have to qualify it as blighted. - Larry Bender

What we see is a plan that has been working... It is turning the town around. People returned to the Long Branch beachfront in significant numbers this year for the first time in 30 or 40 years. We needed to get investment in the infrastructure of the area the city didn't have the money to pay for. Without a redevelopment zone the size we ended up declaring, it wasn't going to happen. - Adam Schneider

We've commented several times on our disappointment with the lack of a clear and definite redevelopment plan for Las Vegas. - William Schmitt

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property. - Kathay Lovell

We've been able to create a self-sustaining real estate model, with development and redevelopment as the engine giving us earnings growth. - Peter Lowy

We're trying to redevelop the entire block, and Radisson was just not the right kind of franchise given our redevelopment plan... We need to make a franchise change, and this is a clean slate that gives us the option to do almost anything. - Tom Tracy